Mapping physiology: biophysical mechanisms define scales of climate change impacts.

ABSTRACT: The rocky intertidal zone is a highly dynamic and thermally variable ecosystem, where the combined influences of solar radiation, air temperature and topography can lead to differences greater than 15°C over the scale of centimetres during aerial exposure at low tide. For most intertidal organisms this small-scale heterogeneity in microclimates can have enormous influences on survival and physiological performance. However, the potential ecological importance of environmental heterogeneity in determining ecological responses to climate change remains poorly understood. We present a novel framework for generating spatially explicit models of microclimate heterogeneity and patterns of thermal physiology among interacting organisms. We used drone photogrammetry to create a topographic map (di

SUBMITTER: Choi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6691486 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature